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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



gara in direct distance to Mdaburu a five days' march : 

 on the north they are bounded by the Wataturu, on the 

 south by the Wabena tribes ; the breadth of their coun- 

 try is computed at about eight stages. In the north, 

 however, they are mingled with the Wahumba, in the 

 south-east with the Wahehe, and in the south with the 

 Warori. 



The Wagogo display the variety of complexion usually 

 seen amongst slave-purchasing races : many of them are 

 fair as Abyssinians ; some are black as negroes. In the 

 eastern and northern settlements they are a fine, stout, 

 and light-complexioned race. Their main peculiarity 

 is the smallness of the cranium compared with the 

 broad circumference of the face at and below the 

 zygomata : seen from behind the appearance is that of a 

 small half-bowl fitted upon one of considerably larger 

 bias; and this, with the widely-extended ears, gives 

 a remarkable expression to the face. Nowhere in 

 Eastern Africa is the lobe so distended. Pieces of cane 

 an inch or two in length, and nearly double the girth 

 of a man's finger, are so disposed that they appear like 

 handles to the owner's head. The distinctive mark of 

 the tribe is the absence of the two lower incisors ; but 

 they are more generally recognised by the unnatural 

 enlargement of their ears — in Eastern Africa the "aures 

 perforata}" are the signs, not of slavery, but of freedom. 

 There is no regular tattoo, though some of the women 

 have two parallel lines running from below the bosom 

 down the abdomen, and the men often extract only a 

 single lower incisor. The hair is sometimes shaved clean, 

 at others grown in mop -shape — more generally it is 

 dressed in a mass of tresses, as amongst the Egyptians, 

 and the skin, as well as the large bunch of corkscrews, 

 freely stained with ochre and micaceous earths, drips 



